BROOKLYN (WABC) — A dog owner is struggling with the loss of her dog after it was mauled to death by two pit bulls on her own front lawn in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
She says the unleashed dogs attacked her pet of 11 years right in front of her.<\/p>\n
“They were right on my chest, one on each side, I was scared they would eat me,” Regina Nicholson said.<\/p>\n
Nicholson said a pair of huge pit bulls charged at her and ended up killing her 11-year-old dog named Bella.<\/p>\n
The grandmother of three spoke exclusively to Eyewitness News.<\/p>\n
“I was holding onto Bella, let her go, they were trying to take Bella , I wouldn’t let her go,” Nicholson said.<\/p>\n
She said the violent incident unfolded in front of her home in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn on July 6th.<\/p>\n
She said she took Bella, who was on a leash, out for a walk but didn’t get far.<\/p>\n
She said she looked up and saw the dogs with no one was around and they were off leash.<\/p>\n
“I picked Bella up, coming up the steps and I got bitten, I didn’t know they followed me,” Nicholson said.<\/p>\n
Nicholson said she tripped and the pits pounced.<\/p>\n
“I just remember that frantic scream, like somebody died,” neighbor Lynette Jeremiah said.<\/p>\n
“They snatched Bella away from me, I ran upstairs the stairs and got my phone,” Nicholson said.<\/p>\n
She followed the dogs, around the corner to Church Lane and took pictures of the dogs.<\/p>\n
She said a man pulled up in an SUV and drove off with the dogs.<\/p>\n
Nicholson went back home and saw Bella dead on the front lawn.<\/p>\n
“She was my companion, she doesn’t deserve to die that way,” Nicholson said.<\/p>\n
Lynette says she’s saw the dogs in a fenced-in area and complained to another man who lives there about the dogs barking all night.<\/p>\n
Lynette said the man told her he got them because people are stealing everything he has on his property.<\/p>\n
David insists the dogs aren’t his.<\/p>\n
He says the man in the SUV sometimes lives in a truck with the animals, parked on his street.<\/p>\n
“Last time over here I saw him, I told him take the dog out and he took the dog out,” David said.<\/p>\n
Nicholson was not seriously hurt but she was so traumatized that she spent four days in the hospital in the cardiac unit.<\/p>\n
Police did take a report of the incident.<\/p>\n
Regina is determined and says the man must be held accountable.<\/p>\n
I want those pit bulls, they are vicious, they have to be put down,” Nicholson said.<\/p>\n
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